Games like Cardboard Conquest
If Cardboard Conquest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vortex Siege, Into the Crypt and SIDExLINES — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Cardboard Conquest: Every card is an army. Play one and a squad of cardboard cutouts stands up on the desk, marches down the board and fights without you steering it. Draft outlandish packs, break the boss lord waiting at the end of each act, and take the crown. Play solo or online with up to three friends.
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Steam players who put hours into Cardboard Conquest also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Vortex Siege
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Top pick for Cardboard Conquest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
Defend your city in Vortex Siege, a roguelike collectible card game where you can evolve your cards in unique ways for millions of possibilities. Defeat your enemies in battle, steal their cards, and customize them. Build and defend your town between battles. Collect, customize, and carry on!
Into the Crypt
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Second-strongest match for Cardboard Conquest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
Immerse yourself in solo or co-op first-person deckbuilding where cards are your only weapon. Build complex synergies and use cards to physically unlock doors, chests, and interact with the environment while fighting to survive the crypt's powerful and strange enemies.
SIDExLINES
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Third-strongest match for Cardboard Conquest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
SIDExLINES is a blackjack roguelike deckbuilder where synergistic side bets and card combos are how you clear rising wagers and survive run-ending pit bosses. Play solo or with friends and try to take down the house.
Firestorm
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Ranked #4 for Cardboard Conquest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Cardboard Conquest.
Firestorm is a deckbuilding strategy game in a fantasy world of weapons and magic. Compete alone or with friends in campaigns or generated battles managing units and spells on a tabletop hex board.
Ludaro
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Ranked #5 for Cardboard Conquest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
Ludaro is a turn-based Roguelite where the board is your battlefield. Strategically traverse ever-changing board with a unique dice system, outsmart deadly rivals, forge powerful Spirit Card combos, and bend fate as you uncover the secrets of a mysterious world and battle toward fearsome enemies.
Lagan Salvage Run
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Ranked #6 for Cardboard Conquest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
A co-op roguelike deckbuilder about salvaging sunken ships. Loot cards from flooding rooms, break into sealed holds for better treasure, and pick your route across open water. Every run comes from a seed you can share. Get out while there's still a way back.
Dragonhaul
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Ranked #7 for Cardboard Conquest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
Dragonhaul is a retro roguelite autobattler where every step matters. Explore a hand-pixelled overworld, arrange powerful items in an expanding inventory and construct devastating synergies before the boss arrives, no two runs are the same.
Contested Space
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Ranked #8 for Cardboard Conquest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
Build your own fleet in this space roguelike deckbuilder. Pick your faction, draft cards mid-combat from a rotating market, and fight your way through hostile sectors one run at a time. Can you carve a path to victory through Contested Space?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardboard Conquest.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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Frequently asked about Cardboard Conquest
- Does Cardboard Conquest have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Cardboard Conquest supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Cardboard Conquest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardboard Conquest are Vortex Siege, Into the Crypt, SIDExLINES.
- Who developed Cardboard Conquest?
- Cardboard Conquest was developed by Paul Booth and published by PB& Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Cardboard Conquest.
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